Policy

Turn off automatic promotion of notification icons to the taskbar

This policy setting allows you to turn off automatic promotion of notification icons to the taskbar. If you enable this policy setting, newly added notification icons are not temporarily promoted to the Taskbar. Users can still configure icons to be shown or hidden in the Notification Control Panel. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, newly added notification icons are temporarily promoted to the Taskbar.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Windows
Category Start Menu and Taskbar
Policy ID 34682df244bc
Internal name NoSystraySystemPromotion

Registry

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HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\NoSystraySystemPromotion (enabled) = 1
HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\NoSystraySystemPromotion (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

This policy setting allows you to turn off automatic promotion of notification icons to the taskbar. If you enable this policy setting, newly added notification icons are not temporarily promoted to the Taskbar. Users can still configure icons to be shown or hidden in the Notification Control Panel. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, newly added notification icons are temporarily promoted to the Taskbar.

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